Just come back from a fishing trip and found these two watches in my mailbox. Linen and sunburst dials aside. What big difference can you tell?

 

The date magnifier?

 

Thanks for your comments. But those are only minor differences. The second hand on the linen dial watch is generic, not Omega original. The lume dots on the first one are original, the linen dial is original, too. (lume slots on dial and dirty lume on hands are still there)

Another shot from the back will help you to see that Big difference

 

Holy shee-yat Hoi - white gold!

For those of you who don't know, you can spot a white gold Seamaster from that period even without seeing the hallmarks by the word WATERPROOF inside the medallion instead of underneath it. Take a look at Mike's / MSNWatch's avatar to see the same thing for a caliber 751 Sparkle 168.023 in white gold.

 

Cha-ching!! Learn something new every other thread. Thanks for the lesson, Dennis.

 

Nice Hoi!
i see why the white gold is so rare. Hard for anyone to tell the difference!
is there an interesting story behind the discovery?

 

Cool pair...interesting fact about the Waterproof position...too.

 

The only interesting story about that 18k WG De Ville is I bought it quite cheap, wired the money to Italy then waited for one month.

Maybe that's the only way to buy cool stuffs at low prices from eBay these days.

 

So is this ss or wg?

 

No hallmarks . . .

 

Dang!. Now that I was half-blind after looking through 10000 medallions in ebay auctions...and almost bought 100 of them...

 

Yes it is ss, so this rule is busted...

 

Nice De Ville!

I really want to try to find a white gold Omega. In fact I have been looking for years for the right one. I´m not too fussed what it is as long as the condition is good and it´s not some little 32mm job.

Difficult to find and especially difficult to find from a seller who doesn´t want to extract every last drop of white gold premium

 

Most of Norman Morris cases were in 14K and stamped as such between lugs (no hallmark outside) and on the dials you see some bling bling, too. I always prefer a Swiss case and this one is a really nice find and I am very happy with it.